If there's any risk of political blowback for lining up against Covid aid that polls well with the public, most Republicans aren't seeing it.
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“Senators can no longer ignore the calls of voters, local elected officials, and economists who have repeatedly called for this relief.” Americans across the political spectrum overwhelmingly want the federal government to provide a trillion dollars for state and local aid in the next Covid-19 relief... 
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Donald Trump and congressional leaders are trying to pass a new €874 billion package to help the US economy but disagree over COVID-19 testing funds.
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While corrupt elected officials and elites feed at the public trough, the economic collapse is hitting people in the United States hard. According to the newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics figures 47.2 percent of working-age people are without work and businesses are finding it impossible...
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Why couldn't the workers who needed help get their fair share? Because Donald Trump couldn't ignore his greed long enough to do his job. It's a mistake he will regret come Election Day.
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Big banks bagged a fortune in fees from distributing cash in the US government's aid program for small businesses stricken by the coronavirus, according to fresh data.
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) said it plans to disclose the names, addresses, zip codes, demographic data and industry codes of the borrowers who received at least $150,000. The SBA says it won’t divulge specific loan amounts, with loans grouped into one of five categories: $150,000 to $350,000; $350,000 to $1 million; $1 million to $2 million; $2 million to $5 million and $5 million to $10 million.
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A Home panel overseeing the coronavirus response is launching probes into how a number of banks, together with JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup Inc., made choices about find out how to implement small-business loans underneath the federal government’s Paycheck Safety Program.
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"The investigations, launched by the Democratic-led Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Disaster, is looking for to find out whether or not banks and Treasury Division steerage favored bigger, well-connected companies over smaller firms from rural or minority communities when making small enterprise loans to fight the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic." - By Laura Davison and Mark Niquette, Bloomberg
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“We cannot afford to allow the interests of private corporations to supersede the needs of the American people and the long-term stability of our economy.” BlackRock, the largest asset management firm on the planet, has for years faced criticism and protests from progressives over its massive investments...
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The Louisville, Kentucky, home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was vandalized just days after he refused to allow the upper chamber to vote on boosting stimulus checks to $2,000.
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Mitch McConnell is expected to unveil a $1tn stimulus package, as the US records more than 1,000 Covid deaths per day.Plus, why we have 100 days to save the planet...
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President Donald Trump has told Republicans that he has no intention of signing a COVID-19 relief package if it doesn’t include a payroll tax cut, Politico reported Thursday. Payroll tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest Americans and have been proven to do very little in actually helping...
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Three companies including Gate Gourmet, a global provider of airline meals, received $338 million in relief money for workers — and laid workers off anyway.
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So many companies are ripping us off, to the point where the corporate parasites in the travel industry will double-cross anybody, because protections are weak and the consequences are few.
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Forty lobbyists with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than US$10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.
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That’s the question taxpayers should be asking as the Trump administration refuses to reveal where a half-trillion dollars of our hard-earned cash has gone.
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Inquiring minds want to know if embezzlement is an impeachable offence. After all, it's not nice to rip off Uncle Sam. That goes double for the Heretic in the Oval Office and the Patrons of Greed in the GOP leadership.
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has directed millions in federal coronavirus relief funds earmarked by Congress for low-income students to wealthy private and religious schools, including nearly half a million dollars to an institute with a website devoted to proving it is not a cult.
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The problem with greedy people is that they want everything that you have, especially if you are poor.
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This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Eight fossil fuel executives tapped for a White House task force advising President Donald Trump on how to reopen the US economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic have donated millions to Trump and other Republican campaigns and political committees […]
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